Trinity Tidings JUNE 2016

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 725 SW Buchanan Street Topeka, Kansas 66606-1426 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT # 838 TOPEKA, KS Trinity Tidings JUNE 2016 Nothing prints in this area barcode will be applied here. STAFF Rev. J. Mamy Ranaivoson Pastor pr_mamy@topekatlc.org Cindy McGinnis Administrative Assistant office@topekatlc.org Laurie Jackson Music Director Marcy Carlson Custodian marcyrtpr@gmail.com OFFICE Trinity Hall, 725 SW Buchanan St. Office Hours: 10:00AM-3:30PM Mon.-Fri. Telephone: (785) 233-0767 WORSHIP SERVICE Sundays, 10:30 AM liturgical service of Holy Communion celebrated every Sunday BIBLE STUDY 9:15 AM Sundays in Trinity Hall Lounge SUNDAY SCHOOL Trinity Hall-725 SW Buchanan Street 9:00-10:15 AM (September-May) Ages 3 through Adult The mission of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church is to: worship God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, serve those in need, and reach out to share the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ! Together in Community Living with Christ Caring for Neighbors

JUNE 2016 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Every Sunday: 9:00 am Sunday School 9:15 am Adult Sunday School & Confirmation Class 10:30 am Worship & Holy Communion 5 Blood Pressure Checks after Worship 6 7 9 am Quilters 1 2 6 pm W&M 5:30 pm Women s AA 8 6 pm Men s AA 3 CSS Synod Assembly - Wichita, KS 4 9 10 11 3 pm Community Garden Work Meeting 6-8 pm Youth Group 12 9 am Task Force/ Council Special Meeting 3 pm Community Garden Work Meeting 19 Father s Day 3 pm Community Garden Work Meeting 5 pm Women s AA 13 5 pm Women s AA 7am-6pm Topeka Gives @ Fairlawn Mall 14 9 am Quilters Pr. Mamy @ Wartburg Seminary Board of Directors Meeting 20 5:30 pm Council 21 9 am Quilters 5:30 pm Women s AA 15 1:30 pm Priscilla Circle Bible Study 5:30 pm Women s AA 22 6 pm Men s AA 16 17 18 July Trinity Tidings deadline 6 pm Men s AA 23 24 25 6-8 pm Youth Group 3 pm Community Garden Work Meeting 5 pm Women s AA 9 am Senior Breakfast @ Cracker Barrel 9 am Quilters 5:30 pm Women s AA 26 27 28 29 30 6 pm Men s AA 5 pm Women s AA 7 pm TLHA 5:30 pm Women s AA 6 pm Men s AA

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Trinity Tidings Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page JUNE 2016 Pr. Mamy Ranaivoson Dear Trinity family, We enter the summer period starting with June and there are already many things a lot of you have planned to do. And yes, all of us are going to be out there with family and friends. As far as the church calendar is concerned, we will be in the Season of Pentecost for a long period of time, until the Advent season. I want to share statistic results from the American Church growth organization's research about how people are influenced to come to church: - Evangelistic crusade: 0.5% - Special needs: 1-2% - Visitations:1-2% - Church program: 2-3% - Walk-in: 2-3% - Sunday School: 4-5% - Pastor: 5-6% -Family members or friends: 75-90% This should encourage us to invite our family members and friends to attend church services on Sundays as it is shown that you are the most effective person that they will listen to! Once they are at church, we pray to God and we ask the Holy Spirit to touch their lives. Trinity members, we are blessed to know that God's love for us is unchanging. God's faithfulness toward each one of us is neverending and God's graciousness for us is ceaseless. Blessings! See you in church. Pr J. Mamy Ranaivoson Special Items of Interest: Heads up! The Pentecost Project has begun. Turn to page seven for an inspirational start and see how you can be involved. Congratulations to Zane, Parker and Joe on their confirmation. Photos on page six. Altar flowers are available June 5 and June 19. 725 SW Buchanan St. Phone: 785-233-0767 E-mail: office@topekatlc.org

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 2 JUNE 2016 WORSHIP LEADERS Date Greeter(s) Usher(s) June 5, 2016 June 12, 2016 June 19, 2016 June 26, 2016 Bob & Pam Kobbeman Bob & Linda Stone David & Cindy McGinnis Martha Nemeth Diane Bottorff Diane Bottorff Diane Bottorff Diane Bottorff Organist; Choir Director; Keyboard Laurie Jackson Mitchell Bean Laurie Jackson Marcia Dahlman Flowers Acolyte Lector Altar Guild Marcy Carlson (2) Curt & Jane Lewis (2) Worship Assistants Zane Kennedy Joe Ranaivoson Jake Kennedy Bronwyn King Marcy Carlson Ted Murphy Bob Horton Walt Laughlin Charlotte Blenden & Team 3 Charlotte Blenden & Team 3 Charlotte Blenden & Team 3 Coffee Host(s) Walt & Helen Laughlin Howard & Loni Reece Rick & Janice Greelee Howard & Loni Reece Assisting Minister Bob Horton Walt Laughlin Bob Horton Ted Murphy Presiding Minister Pr. Mamy Pr. Mamy Pr. Mamy Pr. Mamy Blood Pressure Checks June 5, 2016 Regular Blood Pressure Checks are good for you! Come to the kitchen after worship to have this important health check. General Information Office Hours The church office is open Monday thru Friday, 10:00 am to 3:30 pm. To be removed from the mailing list, please call 785-233-0767 or email office@topekatlc.org. Prayer Requests To share a prayer request please contact Barbara Apps at 234-5130. She will contact Pr. Mamy and get the prayer chain started. If you want your prayer request included in our worship service prayers, please let Barbara know that as well. Altar Guild Charlotte s altar guild team will be unavailable June 26. Will another team volunteer to fill in that week, please? Altar Flowers Please note that there are two Sundays in June for which no one has volunteered to sponsor the altar flowers. If you would like to sponsor one or both vases on June 5th or June 19th, please contact the church office. Thanks. Each vase is $25. Please note flowers on your check and put it in the offering plate. Should you have questions or concerns, please contact Cindy in the church office at 233-0767. After worship, please put your fresh flowers in alternate containers (coffee cans are available in the kitchen) and take them home or to a friend. Please let Cindy know 1) if you will not be picking up your flowers after worship but sometime during the week or 2) if you do not want the flowers and prefer we donate them for you.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 3 June Celebrations Birthdays 1 Kyra Bennett 4 Charlotte Blenden 5 Duane Pomeroy 7 Meranda Bennett 10 Susan Erickson 12 John Carlson 14 Vickie Jacobs 17 Charlie Walker 19 Mary McGinnis 22 Joe Ranaivoson 23 Chris Arney 24 Jennifer Walker 25 Sherryl Coufal 26 LaVell Winsor Baptisms 1 Rachel Heald 1 Jaden Hiltgen 4 Liz Utech 5 Vola Ranaivoson 7 Donna J. Allen 7 Noel Ranaivoson 10 Clara Ranaivoson 17 Ronnie Longren 18 Jim Erickson 20 Shane Pomeroy 21 Bridget Hiltgen 30 William Pomeroy Wedding Anniversaries June Readings June 4 Third Sunday of Pentecost 1 Kings 17:17-24 Psalm 30 Galatians 1:11-24 Luke 7:11-17 June 12 Fourth Sunday of Pentecost 2 Samuel 11:26 12:10, 13-15 Psalm 32 Galatians 2:15-21 Luke 7:36 8:3 June 19 Fifth Sunday of Pentecost Isaiah 65:1-9 Psalm 22:19-28 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 June 26 Sixth Sunday of Pentecost 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 Psalm 16 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Luke 9:51-62 Adult Bible Study meets on Sunday mornings at 9:15 am. Children s Sunday School begins with breakfast at 9:00 am. Confirmation Class for 7th grade and older meets at 9:15 am in the Trinity Hall library. Please Note Change of Address Roy & Rosemary O Neil 3805 SW 18th St., Apt. 103 Topeka, KS 66604-3358 25 Howard & Loni Reece 26 Merle & Bonnie Adams 26 Curt & Jane Lewis 30 Shane & Janalyn Pomeroy

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 4 Council Meeting Highlights, May 10, 2016 Pr. Mamy explained The Manna s Project: Bag of Blessings and encouraged each council member to take one to share with a homeless person. Money will be moved from music fund and Thrivent into the general fund. Simply Solutions will be hired to set up Quickbooks bookkeeping for us. Dean suggested an AED unit, along with some first aid kits might be an appropriate use of some memorial money. Doorstep Topeka Gives Annual elevator inspection is due by July 1. Dean shared minutes of April 19 Task Force meeting and Congregational Vitality Project survey with a request to complete the survey and return at special meeting on June 12. By consensus, the Council agreed that it is possible to allow rented use of our building. Lutheran World Relief Commemorate Reformation 500 will be reviewed at the June meeting. The Topeka Community Foundation will host its 4th Topeka Gives Event to benefit local charities on Tuesday, June 7th at Fairlawn Plaza Mall from 7am 6pm. Doorstep will be participating again this year and will have a booth at the event. The Foundation has $73,500 available in match money for donations made to the 158 participating nonprofits. The match will be made proportionately on donations of $25 - $1,000. Thanks to our wonderful donors, Doorstep received nearly $12,712 last year to assist with agency needs and services. Please come out and join Doorstep staff and volunteers and help us raise needed funds. You must be present on June 7 th to make your donation for the match money to be applied. The A Fun Day of Giving through Topeka Gives and the Topeka Community Foundation has grown significantly since the first year. The first Topeka Gives was a celebration of the Foundation s 30 th Anniversary with $30,000 in match money and 75 participating non-profits! This year it has grown to $73,500 in match money and 158 non-profits! We want to thank the Topeka Community Foundation staff and volunteers for putting this event together each year to bring donors and non-profits together on one day! For more information visit: www.topekacommunityfoundation.org CONGREGATION COUNCIL President Curt Lewis 286-2728 Vice President Bob Horton 640-5344 Secretary Carol Marker 862-1588 Treasurer Janice Greenlee 231-3085 Co-Treasurer Cindy McGinnis 233-0767 Members Diane Bottorff 271-7131 Bob Kobbeman 379-9480 Linda Longren 233-9473 Dean McGinnis 272-0255 Emily McGinnis 230-4529 Ted Murphy 357-4031 Ted Quast 301-514-0307 Howard Reece 286-1959 Junior Utech 272-0664 Pr. Mamy Ranaivoson 207-6489

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 5 WELCA News We are looking forward to the new summer schedule of Bible Study. It is titled "The Heart of the Matter--Conflict, Forgiveness and Reconciliation". The first lesson in this series is "Treasure in clay jars" based on 2 Corinthians 4:7. We'll meet on June 15, 1:30 pm in the Trinity Library. Come and enjoy the discussion, we'd enjoy having you with us! Also, remember to bring your in-kind offering for the Women's Synod gathering to be held July 29-31 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Oasis Convention Center, Springfield, MO. Everyone is welcome to participate in the tangible offering that will be taken which is toothbrushes and nutrition cereal bars. Bring those to the Quilting Room and place them in the designated box. For further convention information see Susan Fitz, Phone 232-1340. God bless each of you with a beautiful summer! Have you designated your portion of the Dillons Community Rewards money to go to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church? Vacation Bible School. will take place June 27 through July 1 at First Lutheran Church. VBS for preschoolers will be 9:00 am to 11:30 am; first through sixth graders will enjoy activities until 3:00 pm. Please contact the church office, 233-0767, if you would like to help with Bible School. Registration forms are available outside the church office. Summer camping opportunities are just around the corner at Tomah Shinga. There are opportunities for first graders through high school students as well as a week-end family camp. Each camper is asked to pay a $25 deposit; if there will be more than two campers from the same family the maximum fee is $50,with the remainder of the camp fee covered by the Reeves Foundation. Camp brochures are available outside the church office or from Diane Bottorff. Registration is completed online. Call the office, 233-0767, if you need help with registration. If you are a Thrivent member, have you designated Trinity to receive your Choice Dollars? And don t forget to shop amazonsmile when you shop online! Call Cindy in the office if you need help getting signed up for any of these!

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 6 Confirmation 2016! Congratulations to Parker Jackson, Zane Kennedy, and Joe Ranaivoson on their confirmation May 15, 2016. Please keep them in your prayers. Parker, Zane and Joe receiving blessings from Pr. Mamy. Parker Jackson, Joe Ranaivoson and Zane Kennedy with Pr. Mamy Parker, Zane and Joe receiving their personalized Bibles from Council President Curt Lewis.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 7 We want to include EVERY member of Trinity in the Pentecost Project. How has the Holy Spirit guided you in your life? Changed your life? Challenged you to use your special gifts? Moved you? Comforted you in a time of need? How do you "see" the Holy Spirit? Come SHARE with us. Questions? Contact Laurie Jackson, 224-9683, (jacksonlk@aol.com), Julie Reeves, 266-5335, (ljrev@aol.com) Pr. Walt Laughlin, 266-9357, (wlhl@networksplus.net).

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Page 8 A Letter from the Bishop The Royals had lost a heart-breaker to the Yankees the night before. It had come in the midst of a long road trip that had not gone well overall, and the boys were having trouble rising to the occasion. Some were saying last night s game had sort of summed up the season up to that point and served as a grim forecast of the rest of the road to October. The sports talk-show guys wanted to know how Royals skipper Ned Yost felt about it all. Look, Yost said, it s a 130-game season and we re 30 games into it. We need to stay focused on the game at hand. So I tell the guys, Look, you gotta forget about yesterday, you can t get it back. And don t be thinking about tomorrow, because we re not there yet. All we ve got is right now, right here, this one game that s right in front of us. It all boils down to this, what we re doing right now. It s hard to keep that focus, especially when things aren t going great, but we gotta just keep grinding it out, day after day, and good things will happen. I don t know if Yost is a Christian or if he goes to church or what he thinks about God, but I like his every-day, close-to-the-ground perspective and attitude. It s what makes for solid baseball teams, but I believe that approach is also what makes for a consistent, intentional, joyfully determined life as a follower of Jesus. You might lament what some see as the passing of a glorious yesteryear when churches were packed (were they ever?), Sunday school teachers were in abundant supply (I never went to that church ) and the most coveted position in the congregation was Stewardship Committee chair ( or that one either). But even if that era existed, the day-today practice of faithfulness in all of life s dimensions still called for a primary focus on God which also summoned us to have a major concern for the well-being of the other. It s been said the Christian life is not for sissies. And this is why: it s not about me ; it s about God, and then it s about you. It takes a lot of reorienting to make that shift. And it s hard, when all of the voices around us shout that I and me are the center of the universe. But once you turn that corner and begin to look after what Jesus looks after, you begin to experience the freedom and the joy in claiming resurrection life for yourself and then setting aside self-interest in favor of God s agenda. This is, I believe, the essence of stewardship, the faithful use of the whole person, which is the focus of the upcoming Synod Assembly. After all, when it comes to living the Christian life, you gotta forget about yesterday, you can t get it back. And don t be thinking about tomorrow, because we re not there yet. All we ve got is right now, right here, this one game that s right in front of us. It all boils down to this, what we re doing right now. What we ve got is right now, right here, the face of the person who s right in front of us. How will we live as the Gospel of Jesus? Roger Gustafson, Bishop rgustafson@css-elca.org